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Coal tar
·- A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture ...

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Tar
·noun A sailor; a seaman. II. Tar ·vt To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar c...

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tar
Don't lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark sheep. A jack tar; a sailor. ...

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tar
[Anglo-Saxon tare]. A kind of turpentine which is drained from pines and fir-trees, and is used to p...

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Coal
·vt To mark or delineate with charcoal. II. Coal ·vt To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer. I...

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Coal
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found i...

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Coal
The first and most frequent use of the word rendered coal is a live ember, burning fuel. (Proverbs 2...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
jack tar
A sailor. ...

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tar-wood
n. name given by the Otago bushmen tothe tree Darrydium colensoi, Hook.; Maori name, Manoao (q.v.)....

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barbadoes-tar
A mineral fluid bitumen resembling petroleum, of nauseous taste and offensive smell. ...

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Bovey coal
·- A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable...

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Caking coal
·- ·see <<Coal>>. ...

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Canal coal
·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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Candle coal
·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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Cannel coal
·- A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It b...

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Coal works
·- A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. ...

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Coal-black
·adj As black as coal; jet black; very black. ...

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Coal-meter
·noun A licensed or official coal measurer in London. ·see <<Meter>>. ...

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Coal-whipper
·noun One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. ...

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Day-coal
·noun The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. ...

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Kennel coal
·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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Sea coal
·- Coal brought by sea; — a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of Engl...

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Coal Exchange
On the north side of Lower Thames Street at No. 96, and at the south-east corner of St. Mary Hill (P...

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Coal Wharf
At the south end of Joyners' Alley, the easternmmost wharf in Vintry Ward (Rocque, 1746). See Golde...

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coal-hod
A kettle for carrying coals to the fire. More frequently called, as in England, a coal-scuttle. Mr. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
kennel-coal
a sort of coal. ...

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coal-fish
The Gadus carbonarius. Called gerrack in its first year, cuth or queth in its second, sayth in its t...

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coal-sacks
An early name of some dark patches of sky in the Milky Way, nearly void of stars visible to the nake...

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coal-say
The coal-fish. ...

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coal-trimmer
One employed in a steamer to stow and trim the fuel. This duty and that of the stoker are generally ...

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Coal Meters' Office
See Wilson's Yard. The coal-meters were 15 in number, and were officers appointed to inspect the ju...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Red Cross Coal Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street, on the west side of London Bridge, near Old Swan (Lockie, 1810 and...

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tar-brush, touch of the
A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood. ...

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touch of the tar-brush
A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...

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